"Despite a breast-feeding brouhaha kicked off last week by a Time magazine cover photo of a mom nursing her 3-year-old son, that's actually the norm worldwide, experts say. But in the United States, breast-feeding children that old is practiced among a tiny sliver of mothers. Some online are calling it "perverted" and "dangerous" to nurse a 3-year-old, but "it's normal for our species," says Katherine Dettwyler, a professor of anthropology at the University of Delaware in Newark..." Read more.
Monday, May 28, 2012
USA Today - Breastfeeding Toddlers
Great article on USA Today - "Breast-feeding a 3-year-old is normal, anthropologist says."
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